A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators, 1–2. köideV. & R. Stevens and G. S. Norton, 1856 - 2013 pages |
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... Amount of Duties payable on Legacies and Successions . p . 1455 . CHAPTER II . - Upon what Subjects the Duties are pay- able . p . 1463 . CHAPTER III . - By whom the Duties are payable . p . 1486 . PART THE FOURTH . OF THE LIABILITIES ...
... Amount of Duties payable on Legacies and Successions . p . 1455 . CHAPTER II . - Upon what Subjects the Duties are pay- able . p . 1463 . CHAPTER III . - By whom the Duties are payable . p . 1486 . PART THE FOURTH . OF THE LIABILITIES ...
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... amount to influence in the legal sense ; and whether or not a capricious partiality has been shown , the Court will not inquire . But where persuasion is used to a testator on his death - bed , when even a word distracts him , it may amount ...
... amount to influence in the legal sense ; and whether or not a capricious partiality has been shown , the Court will not inquire . But where persuasion is used to a testator on his death - bed , when even a word distracts him , it may amount ...
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... amounts to an acknowledgment . A further question has arisen , as to whether , if the party signing for the testator signs his own name , and not that of the testator , such signature is sufficient . In case upon motion in the ...
... amounts to an acknowledgment . A further question has arisen , as to whether , if the party signing for the testator signs his own name , and not that of the testator , such signature is sufficient . In case upon motion in the ...
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... amounts of the legacies in blank , and the amounts , involving , for want of space , some interline- ations and ... amount of a legacy , or name of a legatee , being inserted in different ink , and in a different handwrit- ing ...
... amounts of the legacies in blank , and the amounts , involving , for want of space , some interline- ations and ... amount of a legacy , or name of a legatee , being inserted in different ink , and in a different handwrit- ing ...
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... amount to an act of destruction , if done before January 1 , 1838 , sufficient to operate as a total revocation : -If the testator has torn off or effaced his seal and signature at the end of a Will , the Court will infer an intention ...
... amount to an act of destruction , if done before January 1 , 1838 , sufficient to operate as a total revocation : -If the testator has torn off or effaced his seal and signature at the end of a Will , the Court will infer an intention ...
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Page 705 - Be it therefore enacted, that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death shall have been...
Page 705 - ... in every such action the jury may give such damages as they may think proportioned to the injury resulting from such death to the parties respectively for whom and for whose benefit such action shall be brought...
Page 76 - And be it further enacted, that no will shall be valid unless it shall be in writing and executed in manner hereinafter mentioned ; (that is to say) , it shall be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction ; and such signature shall be made or acknowledged by the testator in the presence of two or more witnesses present at the same time, and such witnesses shall attest and shall subscribe the will in the presence of the testator,...
Page xviii - ... shall not lapse, but shall take effect as if the death of such person had happened immediately after the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the Will.
Page xiv - And be it further enacted, that every will made by a man or woman shall be revoked by his or her marriage (except a will made in exercise of a power of appointment, when the real or personal estate thereby appointed would not in default of such appointment pass to his or her heir, customary heir, executor, or administrator, or the person entitled as his or her next of kin, under the Statute of Distributions).
Page 460 - And if it shall hereafter appear, That any last will and testament was made by the said deceased, and the executor or executors therein named do exhibit the same into the said court, making request to have it allowed and approved accordingly, if the said...
Page xvii - ... or any other words which may import either a want or failure of issue of any person in his lifetime or at the time of his death, or an indefinite failure of his issue, shall be construed to mean a want or failure of issue in the lifetime or at the time of the death of such person, and not an indefinite failure of his issue, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will, by reason of such person having a prior estate tail or of a preceding gift, being without any implication arising from...
Page 308 - Comparison of a disputed writing with any writing proved to the satisfaction of the Judge to be genuine, shall be permitted to be made by witnesses ; and such writings, and the evidence of witnesses respecting the same, may be submitted to the Court and Jury as evidence of the genuineness or otherwise of the writing in dispute.
Page 460 - CD, deceased, do make or cause to be made a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods, chattels and credits of the said deceased, which have or shall come to the hands, possession or knowledge of him the said A. B., or into the hands and possession of any other person...
Page 111 - ... by the burning, tearing, or otherwise destroying the same by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, with the intention of revoking the same.